Hard Times Stephen Blackpool

After this tragic incident Blackpool returns back to his home with the intention to leave Coketown and seek his fortune elsewhere. In the meanwhile Louisa who is accompanied by Tom both arrive to see Stephen. Louisa expresses her concern for Stephen’s plight and offers him money. Stephen accepts, but insists that they are only a loan. From this incident my colleagues we discover something new about Blackpool, that he is someone who likes to take minimum assistance and favors of people even when in desperate, critical situations.

Nevertheless the latter statement can only be restricted to financial help and not all kinds of aid. This is because, before Louisa and Tom leave Tom Pulls Stephen urgently out of the room and says that he might be able to do him a favor and Stephen is ready to take the assistance in this matter. After Tom is taking Blackpool outside his room he tells him be outside Bounderby’s bank at night and wait for an hour or so.

He says that if he can help Stephen he will give Bitzer a message for him. Tom claims that Louisa will agree with what he has in mind, and this single fact seems to persuade Stephen to agree to Tom’s request.

Hard Times Stephen Blackpool

Stephen dutifully spends three nights outside the bank. On the last, he remains there for over two hours, making sure that Bitzer sees him in case the latter has a message for him. Nothing happens. The next morning Stephen leaves Coketown alone.

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 Dear colleagues, we all know why no message is given to Blackpool as he waits outside the bank and this is because Tom has no real plan to aid him but only uses him as a cover up whilst Tom himself does the bank robbery.

This highlights Blackpool’s inability to analyze and make true judgements about people and, what they say causes him to fall in Tom’s trap and many other disasters. Until Chapter four of Book The Third, Tom’s plan is operating smoothly and Bounderby is thinking that Stephen does the robbery. So by now, my colleges Blackpool experiences injustice and industrialization, which are two themes strongly highlighted by the novel. In the next chapter, which is five Blackpool’s whereabouts are still not known Rachael fears he may have been murdered. Sissy suggests that he may have fallen ill on his way back, but Rachel says all possibilities have been exhausted.

Colleagues, Blackpool is used here as literary device i.e. to create suspense in the reader as what is the fate of Stephen Blackpool now. In the following chapter Sissy and Rachael go for a walk seven miles away from Coketown. They are in a green countryside, which is filled with mines, and it is indeed one of these pits into which Blackpool has fallen. Sissy finds his hat lying on the ground. This causes a search party to find Stephen and once he is found he has a chance to speak to Rachael, Louisa and Thomas Grandgrind. He still insists that it is “aw a muddle”, but that he has become resigned to that. He asks Grandgrind to clear his name about the robbery, and , holding Rachael’s hand, he dies.